Revolutionary calendar
- noun
- Archaic
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calendario revolucionario
- Conversion tables are sometimes needed to compare the Revolutionary calendar dates to modern dates.
Examples
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During the French Revolution, the Revolutionary calendar replaced the Gregorian calendar for over a decade.
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Historians often refer to the Revolutionary calendar when discussing events in late eighteenth-century France.
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The Revolutionary calendar was adopted in France in 1793.
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Many historians study the Revolutionary calendars of the past.
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On the first day of Floreal, Year II, according to the French Revolutionary calendar, the people celebrated the arrival of spring.
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In the Revolutionary calendar, the month of Nivôse corresponds to the coldest part of winter in traditional calendars.
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The year 1800 was designated as Year VIII in the Revolutionary calendar, highlighting its unique method of timekeeping.
Surface Forms
Morphology
This is a straightforward adjective + noun composition: a B1 learner who knows 'revolutionary' (related to a revolution) and 'calendar' (a system for organizing dates) can infer it denotes a calendar associated with a revolution. Although the precise historical specifics (the French Revolutionary calendar and its start date) are not recoverable from the words alone, the core meaning is compositional and cross-linguistically transparent.
Etymology
Revolutionary calendar comes from the French Revolution, when the new government made a different calendar and even gave months new names to break with the old royal and church system. It began on 22 September 1792 and was used until 1805, so today the phrase means that specific calendar the republic created.
